The Known World by Edward P. Jones Ya she is an itinerant mushroom

she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent

Why do we bother when everything seems to be getting worse

"--Dust cover

By showing us the true nature of change and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us

For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime

The Known World by Edward P. Jones Ya she is an itinerant mushroomHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under